Jacoba Montuna
I’m from the mountains of the native lands of Borikén (PR), currently love living, paddling rivers, talking to dogs, and gardening in Skokie, IL. Beyond credentials, I’m also a 3rd generation Santigüadora (traditional healer), a Reiki, Thanatology, and Somatics partner in health-practitioner centering on Companionship’s importance.
I specialize in trauma-informed care creating safe healing spaces for communities around their sexual and reproductive health, natural gynecology, fertility, womb/pelvic care, transitions of life, traditional prenatal, cuarentena, and postpartum care, sexual trauma experiences, FGM/refugee post-traumas, reproductive/fertility loss, and pregnancy loss (miscarriages and stillbirths) journeys, and have +20 years of experience in the field.
I’m passionate about community health education, and I do so by respecting and preserving our communities’ innate cultural healing practices within an evidence-based approach balancing the Midwife Care Model and the Ancestral Comadronas-Santigüadoras practice. I’m a native Spanish speaker and can also work in French and Moroccan-Arabic.
Credentials: Direct Entry Midwife (DEM), Women, Gender, and Sexuality Specialist (WGSS), Certified Doula-Full Spectrum-Death Doula (CD), Lactation Consultant (LC), Childbirth Educator (CBE), and Women’s Health Herbal Specialist (WHHC)